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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Rosanne Walker updated 2026-01-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000891b.htm person White Michael James Denham FAA FRS AACR2 20 August 1910 16 December 1983 Place of Birth London, England Place of Death Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Geneticist Zoologist Michael White was Professor of Zoology 1958-1964 and then Professor of Genetics 1964-1975, University of Melbourne. From 1976 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Population Biology at the Australian National University. He made important contributions to many aspects of cytology and cytogenetics and to evolutionary biology, including speciation theory and systematics.

Born London, England, 20 August 1910. Died Canberra, 16 December 1983. Educated University of London (BSc (Hons) 1931, MSc 1932, DSc 1940). MSc, University of Melbourne, 1959. Assistant Lecturer in Zoology, University College London 1932-35, Lecturer in Zoology 1935-40; Rockefeller Research Fellow, Columbia University, United States of America 1937-38; Wartime positions as Statistician and Entomologist, British Ministry of Food 1940-45; Reader in Zoology, University of London 1945-47; Guest Investigator, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 1947; Professor of Zoology, University of Texas 1947-53; Senior Research Fellow, Genetics Section, Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra 1953-56; Associate Professor, then Professor of Zoology, University of Missouri 1957-58; Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1958-64; Professor of Genetics, University of Melbourne 1964-75; Visiting Fellow, Department of Population Biology, Australian National University 1976-83. Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1955, Fellow, Royal Society 1961; Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1963; Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1965; Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society 1978; Socio Straniero, Accademia Nazionale dei Lencei 1978; Medal for Research, Royal Society of Victoria 1979; Foreign Associate, United States National Academy of Sciences 1981; Linnean Medal for Zoology, Linnean Society of London 1983; Minerva Medal, University of Rome 1983. President, Section D, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1962; President, Genetics Society of Australia 1970-72, Honorary Member 1980; President, Australian Entomological Society 1969-71.

1953 1956 Career position - Senior Research Fellow, Genetics Section, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry 1955 1983 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 1958 1964 Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1961 1983 Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS) 1962 1962 Career position - President, Section D, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1964 1975 Career position - Professor of Genetics, University of Melbourne 1965 1965 Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1967 1969 Career position - President, Australian Entomological Society 1970 1972 Career position - President, Genetics Society of Australia 1979 1979 Award - Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research 1980 1983 Award - Honorary Member, Genetics Society of Australia Australian Entomological Society Inc (1965 - )

President 1967 - 1969

 Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1904 - 2006)

Awarded the Medal 1965

 Genetics Society of Australia (1952 - 2005)

President 1970 - 1972; Honorary Member 1980 - 1983

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Professor of Zoology 1958 - 1964; Professor of Genetics 1964 - 1975

 Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

President, Section D 1962

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Fellow 1955 - 1983

 CSIR/O Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - c. 2014)

Senior Research Fellow, Genetics Section 1953 - 1956

 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research (1959 - )

Awarded the Medal 1979

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 'White, Michael James Denham', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology White, Michael James Denham Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Michael James Denham White Guide to Records McCarthy, Gavan; Manhal, Oscar; McCann, Doug Michael James Denham White Guide to Records Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2004 Journal Article: Michael James Denham White 1910-1983 Peacock, W. J.; and McCann, D. Michael James Denham White 1910-1983 1994 Historical Records of Australian Science 10 2 143-161 Resource Section: White, Michael James Denham - Ms 78 White, Michael James Denham - Ms 78 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Conference Paper: Notes on Biography and Historiography of Science - the Life and Work of Michael White McCann, Doug Notes on Biography and Historiography of Science - the Life and Work of Michael White Canberra Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton 29-34 Book Section: Geographic Isolation and the Origin of Species: the Migrations of Michael White Sapp, Jan Geographic Isolation and the Origin of Species: the Migrations of Michael White Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991 International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America R. W. Home and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt 233-254 Journal Article: Michael James Denham White, 20 August 1910 - 16 December 1983, elected FRS 1961 Peacock, William James and McCann, D. Michael James Denham White, 20 August 1910 - 16 December 1983, elected FRS 1961 1994 Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 40 403-19 Book: The Records of Michael James Denham White (1910-1983) McCarthy, Gavan; Manhal, Oscar The Records of Michael James Denham White (1910-1983) Melbourne Australian Science Archives Project 1989 Book Section: White, Michael James Denham (1910-183), zoologist and geneticist Peacock, Jim White, Michael James Denham (1910-183), zoologist and geneticist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2012 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z Melanie Nolan 591-2 Resource Section: Michael James Denham White Ward, C. Michael James Denham White Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 2011 CSIROpedia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Book: Secular who's who : a biographical directory of freethinkers, secularists, rationalists, humanists and others involved in Australia's secular movement from 1850 onwards Dahlitz, Ray Secular who's who : a biographical directory of freethinkers, secularists, rationalists, humanists and others involved in Australia's secular movement from 1850 onwards Balwyn, Victoria R. Dahlitz 1994 Journal Article: Berthold Halpern 1923-1980 Danks, D.; Duffield, A.; Sargeson, A. Berthold Halpern 1923-1980 1983 Historical Records of Australian Science 5 4 72-81 Michael James Denham White - Records Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Michael James Denham White - Records 1948 - 1972 1. Main Series of (microscope) slides of cytological preparations numbers c2696-3928 (not complete), probably all morabines; 2. Identified series of slides sorted taxonomically; 3. Selected series of slides with the numbers 107-2915, Ch1-994 and K27-439; 4. Miscellaneous slides; 5. Published morabine series of slides of revised genera; 6. Other slides; 7. Wax blocks of numbered unsectioned testes; 8. Fixed testes etc in vials, many dried out, mainly morabine; 9. Whole bodies of morabines in liquid in vials; 10. Dried bodies of grasshoppers 1974-75; 11.Dried bodies of 2n and 3n hybrids of "Warramaba" species, laboratory reared with a list of hybrid experiments; 12. Field and laboratory notebooks 1948-72 including lists of identifications by cytological preparation numbers [19 volumes]. 12 series Objects Michael James Denham White - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Michael James Denham White - Records MS 078 1973 - 1978 Typescript or handwritten copies of two of White's monographs "Animal cytology and evolution" (3rd ed. 1973) and "Modes of speciation" (1978) [45 cm, MS 78]. 0.48 m, 4 boxes Michael James Denham White - Records The University of Melbourne Archives Michael James Denham White - Records 1926 - 1985 A large and comprehensive collection of personal papers, including biographical material and correspondence; research correspondence; subject and research files; working papers and draft manuscripts in particular records dealing with research on the Morabine grasshopper; photographs and slides; oversize pictorial material including maps, cytological drawings, certificates and radiographs; material relating to his collection of insects and diaries at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra; overall dates 1926-85 [35 boxes]. 35 boxes Artwork, Audio, Photographs Victoria Eugenics Society Wellcome Collection Victoria Eugenics Society SA/EUG/E.4 1940 - 1961 A set of 161 imaged pages. This file covers the link between the Eugenics Society of Victoria and the Eugenics Society (London) 1940-1961. The key correspondent is V.H. Wallace, Secretary of the Eugenics Society of Victoria from its foundation in 1936 until it was brought to a close in 1961. Latter documents refer to Frank Macfarlane Burnet, M.J.D. White and R.N. Robertson. 1 file Digitised paper records Michael James Denham White Michael James Denham White All rights reserved.

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